National Film Registry Selects 'Pulp Fiction,' 'Mary Poppins,' 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' and More for Preservation

The National Film Registry has selected 25 films to be added to its catalog of titles to be preserved by the Library of Congress. The films selected certainly run the gamut — Quentin Tarantino’s “Pulp Fiction” was chosen alongside Disney live-action classic “Mary Poppins.”

Michael Moore’s “Roger & Me,” on the General Motors plant closure in his hometown of Flint, Michigan, was one of the four documentaries to make the list. Moore penned a letter in appreciation, thanking the Library of Congress for the timeliness of its selection:

The news comes at just the right moment for ‘Roger &
Me’. The upcoming year, 2014, is the 25th anniversary of the film’s debut. But
last year I learned that there was not a single print of ‘Roger & Me’ in
existence. Anywhere. I was stunned. I had received a call from the New York
Film Festival asking if I knew where they could find a 35mm copy of the film.
They were told there were no usable prints in North America — all of them had
been damaged or destroyed or had faded in color. How could the largest grossing
documentary of all time in 1989 just have vanished? Poof. Gone. And if this
could happen to ‘Roger & Me’, what kind of shape are other films —
especially documentaries — in?

I called up the good people of Warner Bros. to help me fix
the problem — and they did. In the end ten new prints were made and are now
being donated to archival vaults at UCLA, the Motion Picture Academy, the
Museum of Modern Art and the George Eastman House.

But now, with the protection offered by the Library of
Congress, ‘Roger & Me’ will be in good hands and around for a long time to
come.

The full list of titles added to the Registry this year, after the jump:

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